Craft:
Last Friday I spent a lovely morning at my daughter Poppy’s school,
helping the children with their project for our local ‘Waste into Art’
competition. We have a total of 10 students at the school, and they are ALL
wonderful little people.
I had to come up with a project that would allow each student to do something individual, yet would work together as a ‘whole’ project. The competition (as the name says) only allows the use of rubbish or recycled material.
So we made a ‘Modern Cardboard Quilt’ for some wall art using cardboard
from old boxes and discarded stockfeed bags.
It was very simple! And fun! Firstly I cut 10 rectangles out of some
old boxes. I had to join a few together with masking tape to get them the right
size.
Then I painted each one a different colour, making sure that all the
colours worked when the rectangles were placed together.
Each child was then given a painted cardboard rectangle, a large piece
of stock feed bag, a pair of scissors and HEAPS of glue.
I gave the children some examples of designs to use… and then I let
them go for it!
We all had a great time, and one of the most fun things for the
children was getting to use the vacuum cleaner at the end to clean up all our
mess!!
Once it’s dry, I’m going to join the rectangles at the back with masking
tape, and then hang them up, probably just with blue-tac.
Enjoy your week and I hope you fit something creative into it!
Emma
